It's disturbing and challenging and will worry away at you... But, that said, it is its own genre, is peculiarly riveting, and is only 87 minutes.

| Aug 23, 2018

This is a small film with a big payback, like a series of tableaux that illustrate how a mildmannered Mr Everyman can become viciously untamed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2007

It plays like a low-cal Falling Down, with all the rage of Michael Douglas's office malcontent but none of his dark humour. Possibly the weakest thing Mamet has ever written.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2007

If it's a relic you're determined to catch at the movies this week, check out Edmond.

| Jul 6, 2007

The great man lets rip with deafening flatulent macho nonsense in a truly awful movie, one of the very worst US pictures to be released here in years.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2007

This is not an easy watch, but it is awfully honest art.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2007

The director fails to breathe any sort of life into a piece practically carbon-dated by its flailing assaults on political correctness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2007

Be thankful it's not longer; at 80 minutes, one may still derive some perverse pleasure from the silliness of it all.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Jul 6, 2007

Whilst William H. Macy is as rewarding as ever, this has not transferred well from the stage.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2007

An intriguing, disquieting, but ultimately overdrawn nightmare.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 1, 2006

The last handful of scenes, featuring Bokeem Woodbine as an acquaintance of Edmond's, are worth the price of a ticket.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2006

As with most Mamet scripts, this includes multiple monologues, and the cast delivers them with fervor. But the delivery can't conceal that these diatribes are directed at topics that no longer are pertinent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 25, 2006

Makes little sense as a character study, and borders on nonsense as a screed on race in America.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2006

The most effective Mamet play adaptation I've seen since James Foley's blistering 1992 Glengarry Glen Ross.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 27, 2006

... the new film adaptation works as a tough, flavorful dark night of the soul, as a middle-aged drone finally has his moment of clarity, which looks a lot like madness.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 27, 2006

Edmond posits that the fury of a sexist, racist psychopath lies just beneath the surface of even the mildest man. In other words, we're in David Mamet World.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 26, 2006

Despite agreeably short running time and committed perfs, Edmond is rendered inert by its stagy atmosphere and failure to fully mine the depths of its protagonist's complex psyche.

| Jul 21, 2006

After a while, I simply couldn't empathize with Edmond and all his pain and suffering, and certainly not with all his exposed bigotries and delusions.

| Jul 19, 2006

Depressing, disgusting, and dated, Edmond is worth braving to experience America's best-known serious playwright at his most gruesomely undiluted.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2006

There is no actor more at ease with battered nerves than William H. Macy.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2006